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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1998
Kunio Takagi, Obu, JP;
Hitoshi Takeuchi, Obu, JP;
Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Obu, JP;
Abstract
An accelerator pedal device has a bracket having a pin, a pedal arm turnably supported by the bracket through the pin, a return spring arranged to surround the pin for biasing the pedal arm, and an accelerator-opening sensor mounted on the bracket. An engaging portion is disposed at the leading end of the pedal arm, a rotor of the accelerator-opening sensor and the engaging portion are associated through the crank mechanism. As a driver depresses the accelerator pedal, the pedal arm turns on the pin, by the action of the crank mechanism engaging with the engaging portion it the leading end of the pedal arm, the rotor of the accelerator-opening sensor is rotated, and a voltage signal according to the depression stroke is outputted from the accelerator-opening sensor.